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"Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much."
Finance
"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."
World
"Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen."
People
"Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does."
Business
"Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support."
Growth
"Good questions outrank easy answers."
Answers
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
Finance
"It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office."
Office
"Funeral by funeral, theory advances."
Theory
"Every good cause is worth some inefficiency."
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